Charles Schwab improved its online trading platform Tuesday with the introduction of new features for its site, StreetSmart.com. According to the investment firm, clients will now have real-time performance reporting for closed positions, new short-selling tools, and more order types. The app will also feature new tabs for realized gain and loss data and information on shorting securities. The updates are available now on the Schwab service.
Privus Mobile, a company that provides mobile calling services, announced Tuesday that its Caller ID app is now available through Handmark stores, as well as mobile stores that offer apps for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Palm devices. Privus Mobile's Caller ID feature gives users a cross-carrier option to find out who is calling, regardless of whether their name is included in the user's contacts. The app is available now without cost, thanks to a free trial period.
Move Networks, the company behind online video streaming for Fox, ABC, and a variety of cable networks, said it streamed 180 million hours of video last year. A hundred million hours of that coverage was in HD. The company estimates that it provided video for 55 million unique viewers during 2008 and it expects even more viewership during 2009 as more professional content makes its way to the Web.
TechCrunch is reporting that Clearspring, a widget distribution firm, has laid off several of its staff, though the company's CEO, Homan Radfar, would not say exactly how many employees were affected. Radfar told TechCrunch that the layoffs occurred during the "fourth quarter of 2008." For more layoff information, see CNET's Layoff Scorecard.
RipCode, a provider of Web and mobile video streaming services, announced Tuesday that it raised $12.5 million in funding to help it gain worldwide traction. The round was led by Granite Ventures, along with Hunt Ventures and Vesbridge Partners.
In case you had forgotten that microblogging and file-sharing social network Pownce is shutting down in mere hours, here's your friendly reminder.
If you were a user of the site, now is a good time to go back and take one last look at all your past quips, shared files, and discussion threads, since they'll soon be wiped clean.
As mentioned before, there is an escape hatch to take everything you've posted to the site and bring it elsewhere--the only catch is that you have to request it before the site shutters. You'll get a download link to the data file e-mailed in "a few days," but you must begin the process from this page while it's still up.
There's a post on the official Pownce blog about what to do when you get your hands on the data, in the form of import instructions for Vox, TypePad, and WordPress.
Most of my Pownce contacts seem to have left for Twitter or Vox. There's also a room in FriendFeed called "Pownce Exiles" with just fewer than 200 members. It's hard to believe that there was a time in which invitations to this site were fetching cold, hard cash on eBay.
Update: Pownce has now shut down completely, although the export page, along with the links to download exported user data files remains. Of note is that my data export from earlier today only took a couple of hours, instead of days as the site stated. One reader also wrote in to let us know ex-Powncers can export their identity to Soup.io, although I'm not sure if this works since Pownce's site is no longer there to serve up the data.
Pownce users can export their user data to another network before the site shuts down. The exported data takes a couple of days to show up elsewhere, though.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
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